Of all the countries that should be taking a stance... this one?
Of all the countries that should be taking a stance... this one?
The Armenians called, they are asking how the Assyrians and the Pontic Greeks are doing.
Well who better to say than the experts? Turkey got so good at genocide, they definitively know one when they see it.
Apparently some historians got so tired of keeping track of all the individual Ottoman genocides, massacres and pogroms that they've lumped them all together into the Late Ottoman genocides. To be fair though, that umbrella also includes plenty of Muslim populations getting much the same treatment in the Christian countries created as the Ottoman Empire contracted.
Pfft, Turkiye are rank amateurs compared to Western Europe. They barely even genocided outside their borders.
Western Europeans have committed genocide across every continent and may have killed ~90% in two of them. The land and resources we stole from the victims of our genocides is the foundation stone of all western power to the present.
Germany begs to differ.
That's the thing, exceptions piss off everyone.
The countries who would never do something like this, and the ones who do this stuff but then get consequences.
There is nothing more problematic in any size society than letting one person/thing do anything they want while being shielded from consequences.
Turkiye used to be pretty friendly towards Israel, but Israel, in an increasingly bizarre and arrogant show of foreign policy, has managed to alienate Turkiye almost completely from their previous relations.
I guess they would know about genocide at least...
It's not difficult to notice a pattern of failing national leaders using this as a distraction. Turkey is far from the only one.
I mean, Bibi is also doing the same.
Between failing leaders distracting electorates by doing genocide and failing leaders distracting electorates by calling out genocide, the second ones are kinda better.